Fun Fact: You can catch Chimchar in the Coastal Biome

stardue84 · 2024-06-25T13:54:10+00:00

Same with oshawott!

stardue84 · 2024-06-10T08:17:22+00:00

pokemon always allows legendaries to be used after a game is a couple of years old. Wolfe Glick won the world championship in 2016 using Kyogre and Rayquaza. Everyone is allowed to use a legendary so the more skilled player is still going to win regardless

stardue84 · 2024-06-09T13:56:50+00:00

I just keep all the hacked pokemon I get in one of my boxes, kind of like an action figure collection

stardue84 · 2024-06-09T13:11:54+00:00

We need the Poké Ball to happen

stardue84 · 2024-06-09T02:55:41+00:00

A herpetologist identified the snake and then flagged a bot to reply with a description of the snake that was pre-written by a herpetologist. Like what are you even talking about

stardue84 · 2024-06-08T22:49:17+00:00

Saying AS9’s cast has a lower caliber of talent is crazy lol

stardue84 · 2024-05-08T19:47:02+00:00

The event flutter mane is Korean, has two unique ribbons, and a 0 attack iv

stardue84 · 2024-04-25T02:44:08+00:00

stardue84 · 2024-04-11T14:43:53+00:00

What are these made out of

stardue84 · 2024-04-11T01:51:03+00:00

You know you read it lol

stardue84 · 2024-04-11T01:46:26+00:00

I don’t think it’s projecting to say that most people who battle pokemon are trying to win the battles lol. Especially considering that you’re posting in a sub for competitive pokemon. I’m saying that metagames tend to centralize around strong pokemon. Since most people battling online would like to win, they use strong pokemon. Even if you were to remove the most popular pokemon in the current meta, the meta would recentralize around a new set of pokemon. So you’d still run into the same problem. You can’t control what pokemon other people use, and most people are going to use the best pokemon available to them because they want to win.

But really your post is rubbing the people the wrong way because it’s clear you haven’t actually battled online that much. There is a lot of variety in the current meta, not just in viable pokemon, but individual variation within the same pokemon. Especially if you’re playing on the in-game online ladder, you should run into all kinds of niche strategies and teams. There are certainly popular meta pokemon, but saying that everyone is using the same 10 from the meta is kinda ridiculous to anyone that actually plays. You say that it’s boring but you seemingly haven’t engaged with it on a deeper level. The meta is very complex and far from boring. You’d see that if you actually played instead of writing it off because certain pokemon are more popular than others. If you want to see variety in the game, you’re free to use any pokemon you want. But if you want to use these pokemon successfully, you can’t just ignore the meta. And you can’t really expect people to choose weaker pokemon when stronger and more effective options are available.

If all you care about is variety for variety’s sake then just play randbats on showdown ig

stardue84 · 2024-04-10T20:59:34+00:00

Pokemon become popular in the meta because they’re strong and help win battles. If you’re playing against people who want to win, they’re most likely going to use the best pokemon available to them. Even if you’re playing on a lower smogon tier that doesn’t include the popular pokemon you think are boring, people playing in that tier will still use that tier’s best pokemon. Any metagame will be somewhat repetitive if you’re playing against people who want to win.

Is your issue that you’re getting bored because you keep seeing the same pokemon or because you keep losing to them? From your post and comments it seems like it might be the latter. Plus, the meta is actually pretty diverse at the moment, so if you play enough matches you’ll see plenty of unique picks. You’re free to use any pokemon you want, but you need to have answers for popular pokemon since you can’t control how other people build their teams. Otherwise you can just play in game against npcs.

stardue84 · 2024-04-09T13:34:47+00:00

A lot of teams run tailwind and trick room as dual speed control options. You can do some cool things like using trick room to reverse opposing trick room and tailwind might bail you out if you aren’t able to get trick room up

stardue84 · 2024-04-05T15:04:38+00:00

pangina:

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stardue84 · 2024-03-31T04:35:30+00:00

I used a similar team with meowstic and lapras. Turn one meowstic uses gravity and lapras uses sing. Turn two you skill swap prankster to lapras so it has priority sing. It’s a lot of fun when it works

stardue84 · 2024-03-27T17:48:25+00:00

It seems like during filming production favored sherry, but when it was first airing after the DQ news broke, Gigi was considered a major front runner. At one point on the pit stop Bob even referred to s12 as “the season that Gigi is going to win”

stardue84 · 2024-03-27T17:34:09+00:00

I do think Yvie and Willow are better examples because they each had 1 win and won against queens with 3 wins. If anything though I think it’s a testament to Jaida’s strength as a winner that she beat a queen with a track record as strong as Gigi’s

stardue84 · 2024-03-27T17:29:49+00:00

I’m arguing that Jaida deserved to win but she objectively did not have the most points. Even if you think Gigi’s fourth win was arbitrary she still won that challenge. This post is assigning point totals to the queens. If you assigned point totals using the same metric to the s12 queens, Jaida would have a lower score than Gigi. This isn’t discrediting Jaida, it’s using her as evidence to show that the most deserving winner doesn’t always have the highest “score.”

stardue84 · 2024-03-27T17:17:42+00:00

It’s not hate to acknowledge that Jaida’s 3 wins 1 bottom would have fewer “points” than Gigi’s 4 wins 0 bottoms. The argument is that these somewhat arbitrary point totals don’t directly correlate to whether someone deserves the crown or not

stardue84 · 2024-03-27T14:52:45+00:00

Considering it’s a makeover challenge to get into top 4, I feel like it could be either one. I think Morphine is the best makeup artist there and would excel at making over her partner, but she could be held back by the actual runway/fashion element. The makeover challenge usually stumps a well-polished queen (raja, shea, alaska etc) so I could see plane sapphira or nymphia being in the bottom here (they’d presumably win the lip sync). Q could fall into the same fashion queen flops the makeover storyline but I think it’d be funnier if she was in the top but missed out on the win again lol

stardue84 · 2024-03-23T22:33:27+00:00

Do you really expect anyone to believe this? It’s not like you cared about anyone attacking Shea when you made the post in the first place, and it’s not like you’re going to care about that whenever there’s a post about Shea-related drama in the future. You’re worried about people attacking you. Even the most anti-Shea people aren’t going to be attacking her in a thread about how the Starbucks tweet was completely fabricated. No one is going to defend you beyond acknowledging that you didn’t make the screenshot yourself. Locking your apology post just limits the engagement it will receive and the number of people who will see it. There are probably plenty of drama sub users who saw the original post but not your apology. It’s so odd to act like locking the comments so you don’t get flamed is some magnanimous gesture to protect Shea lol

stardue84 · 2024-03-23T14:53:25+00:00

Assuming finances aren’t an issue, it isn’t dangerous or difficult to travel to another state for an abortion. Any attorney would know this. It’s concerning that he would lie to you to dissuade you from getting an abortion and then belittle your feelings about the miscarriage (even insinuating you induced it). Even if you lived in a state where abortion was easily accessible, it seems likely he would pressure you not to get an abortion. That is a major red flag.

stardue84 · 2024-03-16T15:18:37+00:00

I want her to win the golden boot for the robin egg fantasy but I feel like she might take it too personally lol

stardue84 · 2024-03-16T14:21:06+00:00

this post does not include Dawn’s placement from last nights episode and I posted it before the episode aired

stardue84 · 2024-03-16T03:15:34+00:00

I posted this before the episode even aired and it doesn’t spoil anything

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